Fafda (Gujarati dish)

Fafda is a traditional Gujarati dish which is eaten on specialty on dussehra.
It is a well-noted fact in Hindu scriptures that any fast must end with eating a food item prepared from gram flour (Besan) Hence the custom of eating fafda to end the Navratri festival's fast came into practice in Gujarat.
Fafda is made with gram flour and baking soda & carrom seeds.
Fafda (Gujarati dish)
Fafda is a traditional Gujarati dish which is eaten on specialty on dussehra.
It is a well-noted fact in Hindu scriptures that any fast must end with eating a food item prepared from gram flour (Besan) Hence the custom of eating fafda to end the Navratri festival's fast came into practice in Gujarat.
Fafda is made with gram flour and baking soda & carrom seeds.
Steps
- 1
Sieve besan in a bowl and add salt, baking soda, red chiili, carom seeds and oil into it. Mix all the ingredients.
- 2
Knead the flour with lukewarm water. punch the dough for 7-8 minutes. Leave the dough for half an hour.
- 3
Now make small balls of the dough. Make as many balls as you can from the prepared dough.
- 4
Take a wooden board/plain surface tray to roll out the fafda. Increase the length of one ball with hands. Press it with the palms in front direction. Roll out the thin layer of the fafda. Use knife to pick fafda from the board. Keep the fafda on the greased plate and prepare more from the other balls in the same manner.
- 5
Heat oil in a pan and fry 1-3 fafda at one time into the pan. Flip and turn the fafda and fry them until they turn light brown in colour. Fry all the fafdas in the same manner.
- 6
Crispy & tasty fafdas are ready. Serve with gujarati kadi and fry green chillies.
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